If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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